Built-in kitchen refrigerator



Get. 36, 1956 [DA DILGER GEB. DEISSINGER 2,766,594

BUILT-IN KITCHEN REFRIGERATOR Filed Aug. 19, 1953 i Inventor? BUILT-1N KITCHEN REFRIGERATOR Ida Dilger geb. Deissinger, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Application August 19, 1953, Serial No. 375,172 Claims priority, application Germany August 23, 195 2 2 Claims. (Cl. 6'289) The present invention relates to a built-in piece of kitchen furniture, more particularly serving as a corner unit.

It is a known drawback of built-in kitchen furniture that it is difficult to make use of the corner space, which is only accessible by way of an adjacent piece of furniture or from above.

It is the object of the present invention to eliminate this inconvenience and to provide a unit which makes use of this corner space. Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description.

According to the invention a refrigerating box is pro vided having a lid that opens at the top. The lid may be tiltable on hinges in upward direction, or removable, and is preferably flush with the tops of the adjacent pieces of furniture. The necessary switches and control instruments may be arranged on a flange surrounding the lid or underneath the same in the insulating wall element. In a preferred embodiment, the front face of the box is at an angle to the adjoining walls of furniture and provides space for the support of a number of switches and other control elements.

In the accompanying drawing a refrigerating box is illustrated in two embodiments, which are given by way of illustration and not of limitation. Many modifications of the box shown may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 shows diagrammatically in plan view an assembly of built-in kitchen furniture with refrigerator boxes according to the invention in both corners, and

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of another embodiment of the box according to the invention.

As may be seen from Fig. 1, a kitchen K is enclosed by built-in furniture in the usual way. The kitchen furniture comprises an electric range 1, a cabinet 2, a table 3, and a sink 4. In the dead space between cabinet 2 and table 3, a refrigerating box 5 is arranged in accordance with the invention, which is opened at the top by a lid on hinges. Box 5 is of the same height as the other pieces of furniture and its lid preferably lies flush with the table top.

The cooling unit of the refrigerator box is preferably arranged below the refrigerated storage space of the box and is accessible from the open side of the box. In this manner, it is not only possible to provide a satisfactory enclosure for the side walls, but also to attain sutficient airing for the cooling machinery. Numeral 6 designates ttes Patent 0 an electric switch shown, in the embodiment of Fig. 1, in the wall insulation, and which is so located as to be covered by the lid in the closed position of the box.

A second cooling box 7 illustrated in Fig. 1 fills the other corner between table 3 and sink 4. This box is of somewhat different design; it has an oblique corner face 8 on which is arranged an electric switch 9. Face 8 is capable of supporting other items, too, for instance a lid controlling element, temperature regulator, a switch for ice cream preparation, and the like.

In Fig. 2 a box 7b is illustrated, which is similar to box 7 in Fig. 1, the main difference being that box 7b has two oblique walls cutting across the corner, one at the front, 8a, and one at the rear, 8b. This latter forms with the corner walls of the kitchen a venting shaft 13. The freezer 1th is arranged in one of the corners of the refrigerating box. Within the freezer there is a compartment 11 for ice cream preparation, the cooling occurring directly from the freezer. A stirrer 12 is arranged inside the compartment 11, driven, for instance by a motor (not shown) enclosed in the space below the refrigerating space of the box.

The invention provides for an arrangement of the kitchen furniture which permits to make use of hitherto dead corner space in kitchens with built-in furniture. It goes without saying that many similar arrangements may be made of cooling boxes based on the above described invention, which has been illustrated in the drawing by way of example only.

What I claim is:

1. In a kitchen with built-in furniture, including at least two rectangularly arranged rows of adjacent pieces of furniture of equal height and depth forming a continuous level-top surface and enclosing with the two adjacent kitchen walls a free corner space, a refrigerating box of a height corresponding to said other pieces of furniture, fitted into said corner space and having a lid opening toward the top, said box having an oblique rear face cutting across the kitchen corner to form a shaft bounded by the kitchen walls and the rear face for venting the cooling machinery, and having also an oblique front face supporting a plurality of control devices, the oblique faces serving also to diminish the distance from the front face to the rearmost point inside said box.

2. A top opening refrigerator adapted to be located in a kitchen corner and having: an oblique rear face to form a shaft bounded by the kitchen walls and said rear face for venting the cooling machinery; an oblique front face supporting a plurality of control devices, the oblique faces serving also to diminish the distance from the front face to the rearmost point inside said box; and an ice cream freezer disposed inside said box, said freezer including a motor driven stirrer.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,930,941 Modlin Oct. 17, 1933 1,952,985 Hopkes Mar. 27, 1934 2,061,869 Gilbert Nov. 24, 1936 2,115,343 Scurlock Apr. 26, 1938 2,149,114 Constantine Feb. 28, 1939 2,324,527 Morrison July 20, 1943 2,618,936 Kennedy Nov. 25, 1952 

